The bar graph compares the participation rate of boys and girls playing various types of sports in Australia in 2003.
Overall, swimming, athletics and netball were more prevalent among girls than boys with netball female players accounted for 25%, while others were primarily popular with boys.
Swimming and netball played by girls comprehensively took up for approximately one-half of total female players. The participation rate of swimming was nearly 21% of girls and 12.5% of boys, while athletics-one of the unpopular sports with around 4% and 6% played by boys and girls respectively. About netball players, only had a little more than 25% of total participants with 25% played by girls and around 0.5% played by boys.
Others were mainly played by boys rather than girls. Tennis and basketball, martial arts and cricket had nearly 9% and 10% of male players respectively, while girls’ participant rate decreased gradually from 7.5% to around 0.5%. according to those four. Soccer and other group were greatly prevalent among boys with around 25% and 20%, while girls only accounted for one-fourth of male soccer players and half of other male players.